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Joanne Flynn @joanneflynn19.bsky.social · Aug 20

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Faculty Professor Associate - Full-Time

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Joanne Flynn @joanneflynn19.bsky.social · Aug 20

We are hiring! The Dept of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics is looking for faculty at the Assistant or Associate professor level (tenure track). Please consider joining our vibrant microbiology and immunology community at the University of Pittsburgh School of medicine

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Joanne Flynn @joanneflynn19.bsky.social · Jun 10

Please support! #standupforscience
Science saves lives!

Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Jun 9

Here is a link you can blast out to all of your networks to ask them to consider signing on in support of our NIH heroes.

actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na...

We are at 5000 folks who have signed on. But we can do better

Only for people who have ever been sick or knows someone who has been.

ADD YOUR NAME: Sign the Open Letter in Support of NIH Staff

Join the courageous and committed National Institutes of Health (NIH) public servants by adding your name now.

actionnetwork.org

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · Jun 9

🚨BREAKING: 300+ NIH employees call out the harm of censorship & politicized science in scathing email to Bhattacharya, demanding an end to political interference, a lift on funding freezes, & rehiring of fired staff whose work saves lives.

This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle.
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Front-page-style graphic titled “BREAKING NEWS” with photos of RFK Jr. and Dr. Bhattacharya in front of a government hearing chamber. Text reads: “NIH Scientists Sound the Alarm as Health Research Faces Historic Threat” and “NIH Employees Send Trump Cronies Scathing Wake-Up Call.”

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B Haas @belehaa.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · Jun 10

Employees of the NIH have signed on to the Bethesda Declaration, in protest of the authoritarian cuts to science funding. You can sign on in support of them here (including anonymously): https://www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-declaration
#standupforscience #uspol #science

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The American Association of Immunologists @aai.org · Jun 2

Proposed cuts to NIH funding threaten American biomedical research, public health, and economic stability. AAI stands in strong opposition and highlights the vital role of NIH in job creation, economic activity, and safeguarding lives.

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Statement from AAI President Stephen C. Jameson on Proposed NIH Funding Cuts - AAI News

AAI is deeply alarmed by the President’s proposal to drastically downsize the NIH by slashing its approximately $47 billion budget in fiscal year (FY) 2025 to just $28 billion in FY 2026.

news.aai.org

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Joanne Flynn @joanneflynn19.bsky.social · May 29

Why? This is crazy www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/h...

U.S. Cancels Contract With Moderna to Develop Bird Flu Vaccine

www.nytimes.com

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RonSupportsYou @ronsupportsyou.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · May 16

"9 Federally Funded Scientific Breakthroughs That Changed Everything. The U.S. is slashing funding for scientific research, after decades of deep investment. Here’s some of what those taxpayer dollars created" […]

Original post on mastodon.social

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Kevin R. McClure @drkevinrmcclure.com · May 2

FYI “Spencer Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, William T. Grant Foundation and Kapor Foundation are providing quick turnaround grants of up to $25k for education scholars impacted by the abrupt NSF grant cancellations.” www.spencer.org/news/meeting...

Meeting the Moment Together

We are returning from the AERA Annual Meeting in Denver reinvigorated and with a deep appreciation for all that scholars and higher education leaders are holding in this moment. Rapid shifts in fed...

www.spencer.org

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Joanne Flynn @joanneflynn19.bsky.social · May 1

Proud to be an #ELAM graduate in this 2025 class! I learned so much. It was awesome to be surrounded by so many amazing, inspiring and powerful women in science and medicine!

ELAM (Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine) @elamprogram.bsky.social · May 1

Congratulations to the ELAM and ELH Class of 2025 (our 30th cohort of fellows) on graduating! Welcome to the ELUM community!

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Joanne Flynn @joanneflynn19.bsky.social · May 1

This seems…shortsighted to say the least

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · Apr 30

RFK Jr. ordered the NIH’s Integrated Research Facility in Frederick to stop all research on serious infectious diseases yesterday at 5:00 PM.

They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone.

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RFK Jr.'s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research

NIAID's Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Tuesday afternoon, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s departm...

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STAT @statnews.com · Apr 30

#Breaking: GOP Senator Collins says Trump’s layoffs of scientists, cuts to biomedical research ‘must be reversed’

GOP Senator Collins says Trump’s layoffs of scientists, cuts to biomedical research ‘must be reversed’

Trump's canceled NIH grants and HHS layoffs threaten U.S. biomedical leadership, Collins says, as she calls for funding to be restored.

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Ferric Fang, MD @fangferric.bsky.social · Apr 30

The headline "could" be a lot stronger.

The report states that "A 25 percent cut to public R&D spending would reduce GDP by approximately 3.8 percent
in the long run. This effect is comparable to the decline in GDP during the Great Recession." Yeah, that'll hurt.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/b...

Trump’s Cuts to Science Funding Could Hurt U.S. Economy, Study Shows

Reducing federal support for research and development could cause long-run economic damage and reduce government revenue.

www.nytimes.com

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Apr 28

Here is the link to the Last Week Tonight with John Oliver about RFK, Jr, public health, and HHS (including NIH)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H34...

RFK Jr. & HHS: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

www.youtube.com

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🧡❤️‍🔥Rebekah Harkness (of LGAD fame) 🧡❤️‍🔥 @rebeccaharkness.swifties.social · Apr 28

This was the most accurate account I have seen done. Made me tear up a few times. So much trauma in such a short amount of time.

Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Apr 28

Here is the link to the Last Week Tonight with John Oliver about RFK, Jr, public health, and HHS (including NIH)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H34...

RFK Jr. & HHS: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

www.youtube.com

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Rosa Lafer-Sousa @rosalafersousa.bsky.social · Apr 28

🚨 This MUST READ essay and call to action spells out, in very clear terms, how the Trump administration could get away with slashing the NIH budget. NIH scientists and Dems in congress need to read and understand it. This is where we win or lose the battle to save the NIH and US science. 🧪 🧠 🧬 🔊

The NIH budget is on a fast track to disaster

An NIH insider explains what Republicans are likely to do next, and what we can do

donmoynihan.substack.com

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Joanne Flynn @joanneflynn19.bsky.social · Apr 27

So important to see!

Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · Apr 27

University leaders need to understand: they are holding INCREDIBLY good cards.

It is so rare in today's polarized era to have the support of 70+ percent of the public against the Trump admiministration on anything. Universities have that—AND winning legal arguments.

Graphic of Washington Post poll from April 18-22, 2025, showing "Majorities of Americans oppose various Trump proposals"

highlighting two lines in particular:
"Increasing the Federal Government's role in how private universities operate" - 28 percent support, 70 percent oppose
"Reducing federal funding for medical research" - 21 percent support, 77 percent oppose

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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · Apr 22

A different kind of "overhead" IYKYK:

My interview in PittMed magazine discussing our work on the dangers of the upside down: mirror life

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Overheard: The risks of ‘mirror bacteria’

The molecules that make up life, like DNA and RNA, have “handedness,” just like most people are either right- or left-handed. Over the course of billions of years, all life has evolved standard left-h...

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Stirling Churchman @stirlingchurchman.bsky.social · Apr 21

My father-in-law, Jack Strominger, and I wrote a letter to the @wsj.com editor about the current threats to science due to Trump's funding freeze. Please repost! www.wsj.com/opinion/scie...

Opinion | Science Suffers With Trump’s Funding Freeze

America’s scientific enterprise demands reliable stewardship, not destabilizing political intervention.

www.wsj.com

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · Apr 17

38 of the 43.

"38 of 43 experts cut last month from boards that review science and research in NIH laboratories are female, Black or Hispanic.

"The scientists typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal..."

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Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards

Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.

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Joanne Flynn @joanneflynn19.bsky.social · Apr 17

You are so kind @immunologyking.bsky.social Thank you. At this point I find the whole situation to be so absurd, I just have to laugh.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Apr 16

Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.

Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards

Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Joanne Flynn @joanneflynn19.bsky.social · Apr 15

No better person, friend, scientist and leader than Sabine! Congratulations @saehrt.bsky.social !

Rock Lab @rocklabtb.bsky.social · Apr 14

Congratulations @saehrt.bsky.social. Absolutely thrilled for you and the department!
news.weill.cornell.edu/news/2025/04...

Dr. Sabine Ehrt Named Chair of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Weill Cornell Medicine

As chair, Dr. Ehrt seeks to build on the department’s already robust national and international footprint in tuberculosis research and expand its portfolio in other areas of research and innovation.

news.weill.cornell.edu

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Mahdad Noursadeghi @mnoursad.bsky.social · Apr 11

2 weeks to the deadline for applications to this post.. take a look, get in touch if you want hear more, don't hold back😎

Mahdad Noursadeghi @mnoursad.bsky.social · Mar 27

We’re hiring! Looking for a laboratory post-doc fellow to help us disentangle protective and pathogenic T cells in TB, so we can stratify disease-risk after infection, and develop more effective vaccines. Interdisciplinary science in the heart of London. What's not to like? More here: bit.ly/4iIEiwu

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · Apr 10

More Americans have died from measles in the last 6 weeks than in the last 30 years combined, and multiple children near the Texas outbreak have been hospitalized for liver failure after taking the baseless supplements that RFK pushed.

Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · Apr 10

A second kid just died of measles.

NYT headline:
As His Chronic Disease Tour Wraps, Kennedy Hits His Stride The health secretary seemed stoic — maybe nervous, even — at the start of his first major trip.
But on a hike with Navajo Nation leaders, he was finally in his element.

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